Development of in-group favoritism in children's third-party punishment of selfishness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 12710-12715

  Jordan, Jillian J ^a,b   McAuliffe, Katherine ^a,b,c   Warneken, Felix ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Equality; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERGROUP BIAS; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SELFISHNESS;

COOPERATION; EQUALITY; ONTOGENY;

ALTRUISM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84907228026     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402280111     Document Type: Article

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